Training

Training is an important component in developing individuals in the workplace. As your strategic training partner, Dutra Associates offers workshops and group sessions to facilitate team dynamics and individual skill development. Training can take place at your location or off-site if necessary.

Below is just a sampling of the training opportunities available. For pricing, program information and implementation options, please contact us so we can learn more about your specific needs and develop a customized service proposal for your company or team.

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

Leadership Essentials for Managers and SupervisorsA series of workshops designed to provide managers and supervisors with the opportunity to gain the knowledge and skills necessary to effectively provide supervision and support to all team members within a rapidly changing environment. The DiSC® Management Profile is used as a foundational element to enhance leader development in each skill area by applying the added lens of understanding one’s own and others’ style. Leadership Essentials addresses topics such as, understanding style, effective communication, handling conflict, directing and delegating and navigating change to name a few.

Workplace Essentials for ProfessionalsA series of workshops designed to provide high-potential individual contributors and team leads with the opportunity to gain the knowledge and skills necessary to effectively communicate, build teamwork and maximize productivity within a rapidly changing environment. The DiSC® Workplace Profile is used as a foundational element to enhance professionals’ development in each skill area by applying the added lens of understanding one’s own and others’ style. Workplace Essentials addresses topics such as, understanding style, building effective relationships, team performance and effective problem-solving.

Emotionally Intelligent Leadership
During the last decade, the business case for developing the skills of emotional intelligence has been mounting. Global research studies have confirmed the relationship between EI and leadership effectiveness, employee retention, sales performance, effective teamwork, job satisfaction and occupational stress. Enhancing EI can dramatically improve decisions, behavior and performance at work – as our moods, feelings and emotions influence us every day. Since our feelings underpin relationships and other important issues as listed above, enhancing EI can produce a significant effect on the bottom line.

Dealing with Difficult ConversationsWhether initiating change, confronting someone about an issue or behavior, or delivering unfavorable news, difficult conversations in the workplace are inevitable. These conversations can be especially hard because of the uncertainty of how they’ll be received, what they’ll accomplish or what their consequences will be. But ignoring problems won’t make them disappear – in fact, most will escalate if not addressed. With realistic examples and role-playing activities, this program helps participants as they prepare, carry out and close difficult conversations in the most productive manner – leading them to embrace, rather than fear, confrontation and produce long-lasting benefits for both the employee and organization.

The Power to Perform: Achieve Your Goals and Create Extraordinary ResultsWhat are the professional and personal results you want to create? Do you want to create a more powerful presence, become more influential, exceed your sales targets or make a greater impact? What internal results do you want – more satisfaction, expanded confidence, a greater sense of purpose?

Your ability to achieve the results you seek depends on your mastery of your internal Results System™. This powerful model reveals the hidden drivers of personal performance and empowers individuals to create positive change and accelerate achievement. Learning to master this proven approach brings participants insight on the inner workings of their unique personal system to take full advantage of their strengths, eliminate barriers and define new directions.

Results Accelerator™ Group EditionThe Results Accelerator™ is a unique visual coaching experience that gives you access to profound insights and greater self-awareness. You experience yourself from a new point of view and pinpoint the choices that are authentic for you. It’s like a powerful internal 360 that leads to actionable results!

Experience your individual Results Accelerator™ with the opportunity to reflect, collaborate and share feedback with others in a group setting. You share only what you choose to share and benefit from the learning that others can bring to your professional and personal development. The group experience allows you to gain value from the observations and perceptions of others to see new perspectives and eliminate blind spots.

The Results Accelerator™ Group Edition includes a one-on-one follow-up session with the coach to personalize the application of the learning.

TEAM BUILDING

Team Building for Success: Adapt, Respond, PerformTeams operate today within work environments that are unstable and unpredictable. Generally, constant change is considered the norm for teams, individuals and organizations. Developing teams that can quickly adapt and respond to changing conditions while continuing to perform effectively are a key challenge. Studies show that effective team performance is the result of several interrelated factors that, when adequately addressed, create optimal conditions for success. An experiential exercise will be used to learn, discuss and improve skills in the seven key areas.

Motivating and Engaging Your TeamRolled out across the leadership group of an organization, this unique program creates a shared ownership model for improving employee engagement – a model where individual contributors and leaders both take responsibility for improving engagement within themselves, their colleagues and the company.

Leaders are provided with a framework, including an assessment process and tool kit, for having discussions with individual employees about their motivation – specifically, discussions about what employees feel passionate about, what type of leadership they find most motivating and finally, what they would like more or less of from their team and the organization itself.

Participants leave the workshop being able to:

Effectively conduct individual engagement reviews

Lead staff with a more motivating leadership style

Drive higher levels of performance, satisfaction and success with their staff